Dwyer was involved in an accident with another boat that injured several people, including himself. Police said his blood-alcohol level was 2.5 times the legal limit. Dwyer initially pleaded guilty in May but then withdrew his plea after the judge sentenced him to 30 days in jail. He instead appealed to the Circuit Court.

Police stopped the delegate along Route 100 in Pasadena in August, where officers said he failed a sobriety test.

The judge combined both cases in the sentencing. Dwyer was sentenced to two 30-day sentences to be served consecutively.

Judge Emory Plitt ordered Dwyer to serve 60 days in jail on weekends only from 6 p.m. Friday through 6 p.m. Sunday beginning Nov. 9. Dwyer will also be on probation for three years.

Anastasia Moore provided the judge heart-wrenching details of the severe injuries her two children suffered when the Baja motor boat piloted by an admittedly drunk Dwyer crashed into an 18-foot Bay liner in August 2012.

Moore said her daughter Taylor, 5 at the time, is not the same child after suffering multiple skull fractures and other injuries. She has amnesia, is unbalanced, clingy and has trouble sleeping. The crash shattered the arm of her son, Dillon, 7 at the time. She said he remains bitter and screams for help in the middle of the night.

"It would have been nice for him to acknowledge and apologize, instead of denying, acknowledge what happened. Had he not been on the water drunk, the accident probably wouldn't have happened," Moore said.

"I think he got off really light," the children's father David Campbell said.

The sentence covers the drunken boating charge and Dwyer's guilty plea to driving while impaired in August 2013.

Plitt called Dwyer's second offense in less than a year "stupidity." Dwyer sat with his head bowed at the defense table as the judge scolded him stating public servants must be held to a higher standard for their actions.

"Del. Dwyer has been remorseful for his actions. He respects the decision," Dwyer's attorney David Fischer said.

The judge said the condition of Dwyer's three years on probation require he stay sober, continue substance abuse treatment, attend AA meetings, have an Interlock Ignition Device on his vehicle, stay away from places that sell or serve alcohol, including legislative receptions.

Dwyer's tar-heel stand against same-sex marriage and his live-free-or-die philosophy on Second Amendment rights have rubbed some people the wrong way. His attorneys contend he's received more death threats than all the other lawmakers combined.

"He's a lightning rod. That's no excuse, I want to be clear, no excuse for getting behind the wheel," Fischer said.

Dwyer told the judge treatment has given him the tools and mechanisms to deal with his alcohol problem.